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Over the Infinite – Chapter 1 (3)

 

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Translator: mii

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[ Labyrinth Guild’s Third Floor ]

And on the third floor, we had the beginner lecture. This floor was only full of large rooms such as the multi-purpose hall.

It didn’t seem like there was any event here, so there was only quiet room without anyone inside.

There was a TCG[1. Training Card Game.] event announcement poster on the wall. Did these guys play card games even in another world?

By the way, we didn’t go to see them, but there were training room and training center on the first floor of the basement, and warehouse rented out to adventurers on the second floor of the basement.

There seemed to be a huge library on the upper floor, but they told us that adventurers who hadn’t debuted couldn’t enter the fourth floor and above. What a shame.

「Somehow, I remember the public hall I used in the TRPG session. Don’t you also remember that?」

「You are just a retro maniac.」

According to the story that I heard, even rogue games had ASCII art-like screen, not something that would appear on video game consoles. Saying that you were playing TRPG was also not something that would get you on the trend of young people. I heard that there were firmly-rooted fans for these games, but I didn’t know where did these kind of fans lived.

It might be a deeper world than the general otaku’s hobby.

「If we’re talking about retro… you might be right. Are TCG and the likes also considered as retro?」

「It’s a major comparison with the previous two, but they’re not high-tech, right?」

「Well, the previous life me is an old-fashioned girl after all.」

「I’m sure that’s not true at all.」

Didn’t you talk about BL games just a while ago?

When we were killing the time with such an unimportant idle talk, two men entered from the entrance of the multi-purpose hall.

One of them was a blonde young man with blue eyes, features that was instead classified as ordinary in this world. He looked like he was around twenty years old. At least, he should be older than us.

Looking at how he had a small sword with him, he looked like a vanguard, but I wasn’t sure how was his battle style since he didn’t wear any equipment other than that weapon.

The young man had a sweet smile, and he seemed like he would get offerings from girls if I went to pick up girls together with him. I wanted to be his friend.

The other one was a giant who was over two meters tall. But he was considered small for being a giant race, so I didn’t know if he was a mixed or came from a race that I didn’t know.

He was holding a hammer that matched his body height with only one of his hands, but it should be too heavy for me to swing it around. He was definitely a fighter that relied on his power.

Did both of them came to receive the lectures as well?

「Hello, are you both also taking the course?」

The blonde guy came to talk to us with the beautiful voice and smile that matched his appearance. He was a likeable young man who made me feel irritated.

「Ahh, you two as well?」

「Thaf’s right. I haven’t seen both of you in the hall, but maybe that means you haven’t participated in the trial yet, right? Did you come to register while matching the course taking period?」

As I thought they seemed to be a slightly more experienced senior than us.

「I don’t know what a trial is, but it’s true that we are a rookie. We just came to this city today.」

「Hee, then you are lucky. Both of us have finished the trial and were waiting for this course. We registered at a bad timing. We spent half month by training by ourselves.」

「Then, you are seniors who are one month older than us. …What is trial?」

「Ahh, as the preliminary step to become a full-fledged labyrinth explorer in this city, attending this course and taking the trial dungeon are essential.

The dungeon is always available as long as there’s a guide as your companion, but this course is only held once a month. If you don’t register in the right time, you will have to wait in vain just like us.」

For some reason, a lot of unknown information came firing to me all of the sudden.

Now that I think of it, the goblin from before certainly mentioned that our timing was good.

「Do you mean there’s a dungeon for beginners, different from what we have to actually capture?」

「Yes, there are no traps in all of the five layers. The dungeon monsters are also weak. It’s like a tryout, and capturing the dungeon itself is not difficult. Beginners would receive baptism, though.」

「Baptism? Is there a strong boss at the end of dungeon, or something like that?」

「…Actually, we shouldn’t tell anything about the details to other people, especially for those who haven’t captured it.」

This was about the dungeon for beginners anyway, so it shouldn’t be something that we could just force others to tell us, huh?

I didn’t want to get penalized by forcibly asking it too.

「By the way, that girl is… no, he’s a boy, eh. Is he your acquaintance?」

Ohh, amazing. This guy saw through Yuki in a shot. Even if it had been a few days since I met Yuki, I was still half in doubt about his gender.

「Ah, yes. I’m Yukito. Nice to meet you.」

Yuki’s in a bad mood. Was it because he was seen through as a boy in the first glance?

「Nice to meet you too. We also haven’t introduced ourselves, eh. I am Philos. I used to be a knight outside, but now I’m just an apprentice adventurer.」

So he was a knight, huh? Even such a big-wig came here to become an adventurer. He shouldn’t have any troubles with his life, right?

「The big one over there is Gowen, who is together with me after the trial. He is afraid of strangers, but he’s a strong man.」

When Philos introduced him, the big guy bowed to us, looking embarrassed.

Rather, he was a shy person with that kind of figure?

…Oh, it’s my turn now?

「I’m Tsuna.」

For some reason, Philos made a complicated expression. I knew my name was strange, okay.

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「First of all, let’s start with the definition of the occupation we all referred as adventurer.」

The beginner lecute began.

The instructor was called as Werner Riot. I could only see him as a human, but it seemed like he was actually a vampire. This city had a lot of inhuman people entering the society progressively.

But even if there was so many people lined up in front of the gate, there were only four people here.

The lecture was held three times today, and it seemed like this middle course tended to have fewer people, but then, wasn’t this too little?

Where was that little guy who lined up together with us at the entrance? …Did he go sightseeing?

「All four of you came from the outside, so you probably don’t know the common sense as an adventurer in this city.

Since it’s been around a month since the two of you came here… That’s right, Yukito-san, since you just came to this city today, do you know what the occupation as an adventurer is? Ah, the adventurer’s at the outside, I mean.」

Yuki, who was called Yukito, responded with a slightly grumpy face.

「Yes. The adventurers outside are like mercenary soldiers specializing in exterminating monsters. In general, their income is lower than specialized mercenary soldiers and hunters, making them not popular.

This is the so-called temporary job where people with no skill and connection will pursue to find prestige.」

His answer was almost one hundred percent consistent with my perception.

Well, we weren’t adventurers when we were still outside, so what both of us know were just rumours and information that we’ve heard from adventurers.

The remaining two people or at least Philos used to be a knight, so he might not be familiar with the actual condition of being adventurers.

In the kingdom, just being a knight was already considered as half noble, and they should at least come from a wealthy family. They were not even remotely close to the low class occupation such as an adventurer.

「You’re generally correct. I also have never been an adventurer outside, but there are many adventurers who came here from the outside as well.

The common perception from what I heard from those people is that adventurer is an occupation where you’ll look for a letter of introduction in a hazard garbage dump.

I can’t swallow all of the story, but at least from the the general public perception, it’s a occupation with no high wages, honors, guarantees, or safety.」

The image of this occupation is ruined, but that’s the truth. The figure of adventurer that I saw often as the theme of a story or game in my previous life couldn’t be found here.

Even if the occupation was dangerous, if you could still dream of making a fortune at one stroke, you could still right. Even I might have done it as well.

「Now then, what I’m going to tell you now is the definition of an adventurer in this city, but it’s completely different. First of all, from the general public perception in this city, dungeon exploration is an entertainment.」

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